Non-Stop (2014)

Non-Stop Synopsis

Global action star Liam Neeson stars in Non-Stop, a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes. The film reunites Neeson with Unknown director Jaume Collet-Serra and producer Joel Silver, and co-stars Golden Globe Award winner Julianne Moore.

Ever since he took on the role of ass kicker extraordinaire, Liam Neeson has been labeled as a man that could mow down quite a few baddies in the confines of a feature film. At least, that's what we were lead to believe before the graphic above was released onto the internet this afternoon. For those of you who are hardcore Liam Neeson fans that are convinced of his godly powers of justice, you're going to want to sit down for this one.

There are two types of action stars. There are those with almost superhuman physiques who leave a trail of bodies behind their rippling muscles like Greek gods and then there are those who basically play normal-ish people who are just really good at kicking ass. Liam Neeson falls in that second group. He looks like a former cop or an aging uncle who used to be in the marines.

People love to watch Liam Neeson fighting to get out of impossible situations. Taken, Taken 2, Unknown and The Grey all opened at number one. This weekend continued the tradition with Non-Stop banking $30 million for an easy number one.

From stories of passengers gone wild to harrowing survival stories and paranoia-fueled plot twists, we break down the movies that messed with our heads and have us feeling less safe on flights than ever before.

At a pair of conferences held in New York City a few weeks back, Collet-Serra and Silver, Neeson and his Non-Stop co-star Julianne Moore revealed to the assembled crowd some of the secrets of this mystery movie, as well as what makes Neeson such a standout action star.

I donít want to say that January 2014 was a bad month for cinema, but the last time I saw something that rotten, I was arrested for desecrating 13 cemeteries. Luckily, I got out on good behavior just long enough to celebrate with readers how superlative Februaryís theatrical releases will be in comparison.

Neeson plays Air Marshall Bill Marks, who is traveling on an overnight international flight, with Jen Summers (Julianne Moore) as his seatmate. As the narration in the trailer lets us know off the bat, he hates flying and along with all of the hassles that go with it. Iím guessing after this flight, heís going to hate being quasi-hijacked while being on the receiving end of a bunch of texts.

Nearly all of Non-Stop, Neesonís second film with director Jaume Collet-Serra, will take place in a plane flying from New York to London. Neeson will play a U.S. Air Marshal who receives a bunch of text messages demanding $150 million, or else passengers on the plane will be killed.

Neeson plays Bill Marks, a long-time Air Marshall who has lost site of the importance of his work, viewing it as the world's highest altitude desk job. But his viewpoint changes completely on an international flight from New York to London, where terrorists demand $150 million from the government, threatening one of the plane's 200 passengers will die every 20 minutes their demands are not met.

With Taken 2 currently dominating theaters after making an incredible $50 million this weekend, now's a great time for Liam Neeson to start setting up his next project-- and, as you might expect by now, he'll be putting his action skills to the test again. He's already set to lead Non-Stop, a thriller in which he'll play an air marshal

Liam Neeson has a new actor aboard his upcoming action film Non-Stop. Nate Parker, who can currently be seen in theaters alongside Richard Gere in Arbritage, has signed on for a role in the movie, which will be helmed by Orphan filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra. The film will be the first movie made by Silver Pictures, the new banner created by Joel Silver after his companyís break with Warner Bros. He is now working with Universal Pictures.

Taken really did establish him as an unlikely action star, a soulful hero who will punch the bad guy, but only in the name of what's important and right. In The Grey earlier this year he took that reputation even further, as a suicidal sniper who's stuck in the wilderness after a plane crash, and sees no choice but to help his cohorts survive

Earlier in the year Liam Neeson starred in The Grey and had some pretty bad luck with airplanes. In that particular story, while flying back home over the Alaskan tundra, his plane fails and crashes in the middle of nowhere and he finds himself leading his fellow survivors against an angry, territorial group of wolves. It looks like that lucky streak is set to continue with his newest project as well.

Dark Castle, founded in 1999 by Robert Zemeckis and a few others, has been home to many low-end horror/thriller films, most of which youíd rather forget about than revisit. Earlier this year, they experienced their first major box office victory with the Liam Neeson vehicle Unknown crushing in theaters